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	<title>The Why Files &#187; Matter, energy, and organization in living systems</title>
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		<title>Assembly-lines don&#8217;t work for ants!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specialization may work in factories, but it does not make ant colonies more efficient. As the conventional wisdom about social insects goes topsy-turvy, what's an ecologist to think?]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Store that fat&#8221; says new gene. Is obesity explained?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New discovery shows how all animals store fat in cells, could lead to advances in fight against obesity or diabetes. Funny, maybe storing fat is a good thing.]]></description>
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		<title>Music and speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most music is built on the 12-tone "chromatic" scale. Does this reflect chance, or the basic structure of the human voice? New study finds tight link between pronunciation and musical scale.
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		<title>Flying with bats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 19:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study shows how they stay aloft, turn on a dime. Freeze-frame pix of bats flying show unexpectedly complex flight patterns. Meet evolution's second answer to the problem of vertebrate flight.
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		<title>New Trick for Water Pistol of the Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How's a hungry fish supposed to make a living in the shallow water below tropical mangrove trees? Hint: Squirt, squirt!]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prizefight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology given to inventors of MRI machine -- but were these guys really the inventors? Meet an unprecedented PR campaign to change the Nobel.]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction: The Danger of Being Big!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant crocodile relative raises question of why big animals go extinct faster. If an 11-meter croc can't survive, what about a 2-meter Homo sapien?]]></description>
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		<title>Earthworms Wrecking Forests?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alien earthworms are killing trees in northern deciduous forests. Are fishing people to blame?]]></description>
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